About the author

My name is Rourke Douglas Decker. I am a nontraditional student at the University of Wisconsin—La Crosse, majoring (ironically enough) in German.
Against all evidence, I firmly maintain that I am hopelessly
inept at biology, but I continue to plug away at it, since like
many of my colleagues in this class, I hope one day to go to medical school.
I also plan eventually to earn my pilot's license.

My dream, were every star in the cosmos to come into proper
alignment, is to earn enough money as a novelist to enable me to
fly medical aviation missions into disadvantaged nations and
provide medical care free of charge to those in need. I
know that's a tall order to ask.

I look forward to completing my major
by studying abroad in Germany in the Fall 2010 semester, though it will mean uprooting and relocating my wife,
twin sons, andChihuahua
to a foreign land. I am no stranger to foreign lands,
having served two years in Iraq as a medic with the United
States Army.

As a broke college student of both the humanities and hard
sciences, I obviously have a broad array of interests, though few
hobbies. (In the
immortal words of George Carlin: "Hobbies
cost money. Interests are quite free.")
Moreover, I love to meet new people. Feel free to email me
any time or look me up on Facebook.
I'm the only Rourke on Facebook—not to mention the only Rourke Decker in the world—so I'm pretty easy to find.